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On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Seeing posts about multiple monitors recently and I'm thinking of treating myself to a nice shine new one, and running the old one as a 2nd display... However my mobo might not be up to it - I would have to use a (gasp!) PCI graphics card for the exising monitor - 1280x1024 while the on-board copes with the new one (er, 1920x1080 which I think the mobo will cope with... Intel chipsset) Aria: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Displays/Monitors/TFT+20+-+23/Arianet+23%22+Full+HD+Widescreen+LCD+Monitor+-+Black+?productId=37241 My current monitor is the 19" version by the same maker and it's been (still is!) really good for the past few years now, and cost about the same price as that did too. (didn't come with the nice photo though )-; Mobo just has a single 32-bit PCI slot. I have an nvidia riva-128 PCI card which I used in my last system without any real issues. I suspect I'm simply barking up the wrong tree trying to mix 2 different graphics systems (on-board + PCI) but it's not something I've ever looked into..The only problems I've had previously is that I forgot that when a motherboard has an AGP slot, if there is an onboard graphics chip it tends to also be AGP - adding an AGP card seems to disable the onboard one. You shouldn't have a problem with PCI, though.
Maybe I'll give it a go if I have some time (Gah! What's that!!!) I have an old 17" "backup" Tube monitor I can experiment with. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html